Among his many credits, the 87-year-old Asner is likely best known for his role as Lou Grant on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” a character which was later spun off into its own show. He is also well-known by a younger generation for his voice role as Carl Fredericksen in Pixar’s “Up.”

Asner was nominated for seven Emmys for his role as Lou Grant on “Mary Tyler Moore,” winning three. He won two more Emmys for his work on “Lou Grant” and two for his work in other projects, including the acclaimed mini-series “Roots.” Off-camera, he was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1981-1985.

Your post? Yawn. How incredibly original. But living in your mommy’s basement, you wouldn’t have been around to know what a treasure he is, would you. It’s okay sweetie.

The Constitutionalist

Your post? Double yawn, sweetie. You can’t call out the originality of someone else’s post and then also retort with the classic, “you live in your mom’s basement.” That’s like… super unoriginal man. You learn this year 1 in troll school.

Bias

Reston Now, your bias is continuing to show….

SouthLake

If there’s a fat old irrelevant Republican actor having a book tour in Reston anytime soon please share

Reston Now

If James Woods were coming to Reston, there’d be an article about that. He’s not. Ed Asner is.

Willie Reston

What about Mel Gibson? Vince Vaughn?

kindergarden

dont forget to mix person/ality with ideology!

Mike M

Yes. The actor will tell us how to interpret reality. Indeed! Feh!

RoadApples

re: Constitution
Would appreciate a debate between Ed Asner and Mark Levin

skyedent

Another event has Mr. Asner listed as speaking the night of Oct 27th in Beverly Hills. Is it possible he’s doing both?

Juli Vermillion

Why is everyone being so rude? You don’t like him or his political views, don’t go. But all your snark says he has hit a nerve–that’s about you, not him. Have a little respect…he has probably accomplished way more than any of you.